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Introduction and conceptual framework
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter introduces the integrated approach to wetland assessment. It argues for integration as an essential principle for understanding wetlands and their management and use. It discusses different approaches for ...
The forgotten service: food as an ecosystem service from estuarine and coastal zones
Type: Book Chapter
In this chapter, we review in detail the existing body of literature and knowledge related to the provision of food in estuaries and coastal zones. Both aquatic and terrestrial commodities are considered. The chapter ...
Implications of climate change for contributions by fisheries and aquaculture to Pacific Island economies and communities
Type: Book Chapter
Throughout Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) there is broad recognition that fisheries and aquaculture make vital contributions to economic development, government revenue, food security and livelihoods. It ...
Innovations in fisheries co-management, and the challenge of mobility
Type: Book Chapter
Co-management attempts mostly focus on improving fish-stock management, requiring people to reduce fishing activities, without offering any interim benefits. Thus incentives are not taken into account. The SFLP (Sustainable ...
Fisheries management and governance challenges in a climate change
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter outlines the causes and consequences of climate change and summarise future projections for ocean temperature rise, coral bleaching events and ocean acidification, and the associated uncertainties. This review ...
Livelihood assessment tools
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter presents livelihood analysis concepts, and provides an operational model for livelihood analysis in the context of wetland systems. It recommends a generic ‘nested’ sampling approach, and gives guidance on a ...
Poverty reduction as a means to enhance resilience in small-scale fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter examines the multiple dimensions of poverty and related 'state of being' such as vulnerability and social exclusion, with reference to several important aspects of vulnerability, including gender, climate ...
Climate change, small-scale fisheries and smallholder aquaculture
Type: Book Chapter
Fisheries and aquaculture both contribute to meeting the Millennium Development Goals but vulnerability to climate change threatens the contribution that they make to development. Impacts of climate change on small-scale ...
Learning and adaptation: the role of fisheries comanagement in building resilient social-ecological systems
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter focuses on how robust self-organizations can be formed within fisheries co-management systems. Over the last 30 years, co-management has been increasingly advocated as a blueprint solution for small-scale ...
Predicting the impacts and socio-economic consequences of climate change on global marine ecosystems and fisheries: the QUEST_Fish framework
Type: Book Chapter
Climate change is accelerating and is already affecting the marine environment. Estimating the effects of climate change on the production of fish resources, and their dependent societies, is complex because of: difficulties ...